On September 9th the Oregonian published an article calling out the City of Portland for their lack of follow through with the “pass-through” agreement that was made with Airbnb. This article started a chain of events that caused the City of Portland to begin cracking down on unlicensed short term rentals in earnest. The city’s compliance department started looking up properties and started issuing fines for those properties that never got their proper paperwork submitted.

Now there is a looming January 15th date where Airbnb says they will remove any listing that doesn’t have the proper permit number listed on their site.

Out of thousands of hosts who thought they properly registered for their ASTR permit through Airbnb’s system, only about a dozen of them actually got processed through the City of Portland. Now all those hosts that thought they were permitted and ready to operate may find their listing has been removed as of January 15th.

Click the link to read the Oregonian article: Portland promised to crack down on unlicensed Airbnbs. This happened instead.

If you have found yourself without a City of Portland Type-A or Type-B ASTR permit, please use the “connect” button on my website to schedule a call and we’ll see how we can get you back in business.